OCT-A-5
EXCHANGE OF NOTES WITH JIM CAMPBELL,
RELATING THE EVENTS OF PROGRESS
ON REMODELING PROJECTS ON BOTH OUR HOUSES
From: Glenn Geelhoed
To: Jim Campbell
Date:
Subject: Re: Package coming on its way!
Just in time!
I
got your message, with the box all labeled, and ready to have me send it
through the US Postal Service insured to the Lakeport address! I have re‑addressed it to Shirley's
work address, since it would arrive at the same kind of worksite as my home
address now represents at
That follows a rather unusual day yesterday. I went to see half of a very brief‑‑but quite costly operation, in which a 150 foot Sky Crane suspended four illegal aliens from Guatemala, (who were surprised to see me and hear that I knew their language and their home towns!) bucking chain saws amid tons of flying timber. They needed to drop my Tricentennial Oaks to make way for the deliver and foundation work, covered over by the heavy debris of my crowned oaks ("too bad we cannot use this magnificent white oak lumber for the extension of your hardwood floors!" said the fellow who came by to truck away the fallen timber.)
This rather high‑risk yet efficient operation was witnessed by the owner of the property‑‑which resulted in a convenient time to ask him for a check on the spot for today's work‑‑‑Hurricane Isabel's price tag for only today's work?= $18,000.
I may take you up on that offer, and move out permanently, since I can no longer afford to live in my "logged over" house!
I am glad that things can go forward there swiftly, and wish you the best in the resettling process. I know well what it is like to be separated form the usual convenience of knowing where things are‑‑I can find nothing of the stuff I had packed for the Sikkim trip tomorrow, since it was stacked in the storage guest bedroom that was locked, but was entered and turned upside down by the crew that came in to tear out and replace all the windows. So much for careful pre‑planning!
Photos
and an outline of the
I found myself called in to take care of one of the Guatemalans who had an injured shoulder. Then the chief production manager of the remodeling contractor and I had a rather somber talk. It seems he had a cough, got a chest X‑ray, and has a spot on his lung which is suspicious after a CT Scan, and they want to biopsy it. So, he and I have had a talk about lung cancer and what it can do to modify one's life plans‑‑not the most significant of which is the building project that he was hired to supervise full‑time.
So, life is like that!
I added a picture or two to the package along with a letter of recommendation for a young lady named Reena that I thought you might find interesting, in order to share in the pride of accomplishment of your daughter at graduation.
So, you caught me just in time for the package to be re‑directed, with a well‑traveled rug (aren't oriental carpets supposed to be able to fly on their own?) and, in case it gets thirsty, a water pump and filter accompanying it. I will surely take you up on your offer, and we will get out together again to hunt and chase down whatever dreams you have at your desk of faraway places‑‑to one of which I am heading tomorrow!
Cheers!
GWG
>>> "Jim Campbell" <jecamp4@hotmail.com> 10/02/03 06:38PM >>>
Hey Glenn. Great to hear from you. I was afraid that Isabelle may have
impacted
your project. I'm sorry it was to such
an extent. How was
Hope it was to your expectations.
interesting. I wish I was going with you. Of course, I wish I was going
anywhere actually.
The house is going well. The roof trusses go on next Tuesday. We're hoping
to have it shelled in and weather proof by the third week of Oct.
I would suggest you use UPS to ship the rug. Use Shirley's work address.
is used ups would miss it and we do not recieve mail at home yet. Still
using
the
now. Ah the joys of civilization. 707‑262‑0597.
Speaking of which, where are you sleeping now? What is the time frame of
your home add? If you are within hailing distance of area code 707 you
always have a place to hang your hat. I hope to see you soon. Don't forget
to include customs/shipping/etc charges with the worlds most traveled rug.
Take care Glenn and be safe.
Give
my best to
Jim and Shirley C.
p.s. I also have a new email add. for home now. jecamp@mchsi.com
take care,
jc
>From: Glenn Geelhoed <msdgwg@gwumc.edu>
>To: jecamp4@hotmail.com
>Subject: Package coming on its way!
>Date:
Thu,
>
>James
>
>
>
>707/349‑2206
>707/263‑2550
>
>
>
>Dear Jim:
>
>How much progress has there been on your end?
>
>I can forward to you the evidence of some progress on Derwood, which has
>looked very forlorn as it was a gutted cave during the "Demolition Phase"
>where all my memories and carefully preserved stuff went down the chutes
>into three dumpsters. But, now the foundations have been completed and the
>bricklaying has been done.
>
>There has been an unexpected glitch in that Hurricane Isabel has dropped
>eight of my magnificent trees, including several of the remaining
>tricentennila oaks. They had "crowned" in the high winds, snapping thirty
>feet off the ground, none of them hitting the house but dropping over the
>drive preventing the trucks delivering materials and also a big one crushed
>the gates and wound up lying where the new breakfast room should be going.
>Also, my crushed canoe is found under the rubble. It will be several weeks
>before the tree removal service can come out to get to them. Ironically,
>as
I left for
>sky crane so as not to interfere with the future potential threat of their
>falling on or near the house!
>
>I am forwarding to you extra copies of the letter I had written for Reen
>and had sent her the original. She had, as I had told you before, done a
>superb job!
>
>That is not to overlook the wonderful job you had done! I had remarked
>that you took your first blood pressure, then proceeded to take more than I
>have in my life in this business!
>
>I have enclosed a few memories of that event as you were in progress doing
>these new things for your "second" (or, what number are we up to?" career.
>
>I
have completed the
> this note an access to the Photoworks "On‑Line" collection of pictures
>that will show many of the Ladakh, but also Alaskan and other adventure
>excursions as well (Sep‑B‑5)
>
>You can also access the text of these excursions in the On‑Line Journal
>section of my Home Page at http://home.gwu.edu/~gwg
>
>I am going to try to collect a few items of yours and get them to you with
>either a UPS or US Postal service package. If all goes well, the package
>should follow this similarly sent note by email by about a week.
>
>Let me know if it does not come through—and I will have to use your
>address, since I have learned they cannot ship anything to a P O Box
>number.
>
>I
am heading to
>led
there. We will see how the
>scene—the highest, driest, coldest place of any human year‑round habitation
>on earth.
>
>I look forward to a hunt or some such excursion (compare with the salmon of
>the
>deer
in
>and
other game in the
>
>Cheers!
>
>GWG
>
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